As a preview of the drive technology in its upcoming Macan Electric, Porsche has partnered with the Austrian Frauscher Shipyard to create the exclusive sports boat.…
MoreMountain View, California (dpa) – Google is throwing AI smarts at all its apps, and Gmail, Search, Photos, Messages and Google Maps are all getting new features that have the potential to make various tasks much simpler. The company’s AI chatbot (and its answer to the Microsoft-affiliated rival ChatGPT), Bard, is being rolled out in 180 countries around the world, while…
MoreWashington (dpa) – The alarm around so-called artificial intelligence(AI) and machine learning has prompted the technology’s “godfather”Geoffrey Hinton to lament his life’s work. AI, the warnings go, could see widespread job losses or worse, should it “get smarter than people”, as Hinton put it when he quit his job at Google in early May. Hinton’s concerns followed tech business bosses putting…
MoreMountain View, California (dpa) – Google has announced that its AI chatbot Bard, the tech giant’s rival to the Microsoft-affiliated ChatGPT, is being rolled out in 180 countries around the world, but that users in European Union countries will have to wait. Bard, which now speaks English, Japanese and Korean, is being kept out of the EU as the US…
MoreEntrepreneur Antony Perzo introduces a small device called Emobot, which looks like a cross between a speaker and a piece of abstract art, and explains: “It’s an emotional thermometer!” Like hundreds of other exhibitors at CES, the world’s biggest tech expo, French engineer Perzo is selling the merits of an object that depends on the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence.…
MoreBuilding racetracks on the living room floor and racing model cars on them has been a popular childhood activity for generations, but how did the enduring hobby of slot car racing get started in the first place? “There were attempts to build a car racetrack as early as the late 1920s,” says Andreas A. Berse, editor-in-chief of Modell Fahrzeug, a…
MoreApple is rolling out the ability to send messages via satellite, designed to work in emergencies when iPhone users don’t have signal, in several more countries after launching in the US. As of Tuesday, the satellite emergency call will also be available in France, Germany, the UK and Ireland, Apple says, allowing anyone there with an iPhone 14 to point their…
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